BACKGROUND Equity of access to appropriate pre-hospital emergency care is a core principle underlying an effective ambulance service. Care must be provided within a timeframe in which it is likely to be effective. A national census of response times to emergency and urgent calls in statutory ambulance services in Ireland was undertaken to assess current service provision. METHODS A prospectiv...

BACKGROUND Provision of emergency medical services (EMS) in the rural United States presents a unique challenge. While rural and urban EMS outcomes have been compared, differing urban-rural population characteristics and roles for rural ambulance teams can confound such comparisons. METHODS A year-long study of the prehospital EMS was conducted in rural Richardson County, Nebraska. Data were ...

INTRODUCTION AND AIMS Opioid overdose fatalities are a significant concern globally. Non-fatal overdoses have been described as a strong predictor for future overdoses, and are often attended by the ambulance services. This paper explores characteristics associated with non-fatal overdoses and aims to identify possible trends among these events in an urban area in Norway. DESIGN AND METHODS T...

BACKGROUND An optimal ambulance response interval is desirable for emergency medical services (EMS) operations. Arriving on scene within a treatment time window is often delayed for many reasons, including overwhelming call volume. OBJECTIVE To determine whether an association exists between the ambulance call volume (ACV), the unavailable-for-response (UFR) interval, and the delayed ambulanc...

EMERGENCY SERVICE PROVIDERS ARE FACING THE FOLLOWING PROBLEM: how and where to locate vehicles in order to cover potential future demand effectively. Ambulances are supposed to be located at designated locations such that in case of an emergency the patients can be reached in a time-efficient manner. A patient is said to be covered by a vehicle if (s)he can be reached by an ambulance within a p...

The Purpose of this paper is to introduce a flying robot that saves lives of victims in case of sudden cardiac arrests .we have designed this robot to bring along an Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) to help the lay rescuers in providing first aid to the victim before the arrival of ambulance .Once when the cardiac arrest occurs, signal would be transmitted to the AmbuFBot station by sensi...

Ambulance demand estimation at fine time and location scales is critical for fleet management and dynamic deployment. Large-scale datasets in this setting typically exhibit complex temporal dynamics and sparsity at high resolutions. We describe two new methods to address these challenges, and provide temporal and spatio-temporal ambulance demand estimations for Toronto, Canada. First, we foreca...

Background: The emergency medical services system has a vital role in the timely treatment of victims and the reduction of injury and mortality rates. Ambulance response time is an essential variable in evaluating the quality of its services. The aim of this study was to determine the ambulance response time and to compare it according to background variables. Methods: This descriptive study ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate triage and transportation to a minor injury unit (MIU) by emergency ambulance crews. METHODS Ambulance crews in two services were asked to transport appropriate patients to MIU during randomly selected weeks of one year. During all other weeks they were to treat such patients according to normal practice. Patients were followed up through ambulance service, hospital and/...

This paper proposes a new multiobjective location problem for emergency facilities, e.g. ambulance service stations and fire stations. In the problem, one of the objectives is to minimize the maximal distance of the paths from the located emergency facilities to hospitals via accidents. The other is to maximize the frequency of accidents that the emergency facilities can respond quickly. An int...